The Linguistic Normalisation Committee has met with the Culture Minister, Anxela Bugallo, to reach an agreement to turn the audiovisual sector into a vehicle for normalising the use of the Galician language. read more

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The Play Doc International Documentary Festival, which will be held in Tui in March 2006, is now accepting documentaries through to November 30th, 2005.
Further information available on the festival website
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The Ministery of Culture´s budget reveals that museums, stage arts and the cinema will receive 70%. The Culture Minister, Carmen Calvo, also revealed that there will be 20% tax relief for businesses that invest in the audiovisual sector.

The Linguistic Normalisation Committee has met with the Culture Minister, Anxela Bugallo, to reach an agreement to turn the audiovisual sector into a vehicle for normalising the use of the Galician language.
At present, there are two Galician-language co-productions that will premiere in some Galician cinemas this week: 'O desenlace', by Vigo´s Juan Pinzás, which will...

The film Sinfin, about the future of pop-rock groups in the eighties and the Movida, will premiere on October 18th.
The film features Nacho Novo, Armando del Río, Ana Álvarez, Carlos Iglesias, Javier Aller, Quique San Francisco and the special collaboration of the ever-young Jorge Sanz.

The following audiovisual subsidies are available in Galicia and Spain.
GALICIA: AUDIOVISUAL CONSORTIUM
-Subsidies to attend markets, festivals, etc. Apply before December 15th, 2005.
ICO, TVG AND GALICIAN AUDIOVISUAL SECTOR
-Financing for the production of feature films, TV films, documentaries, etc. Apply before December 31st, 2005.
SPAIN: MEDIA...

The film Mar de Estrellas, which deals with the consequences of the Prestige oil slick along the Galician coastline, is one of two Spanish projects trying to win the Descartes prize.
There are 23 entries from 10 countries, competing for the 50,000 euros prize money.